“If the leaders of the Republican Party want to destroy the party, they should continue to hold meetings like the one described in the Washington Post this morning”, Carson said in a statement, which described the monthly dinner as a “party boss insider meeting”.
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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson released a fiery statement on Friday denouncing a reported meeting attended by his party’s top leaders earlier in the week.
“So whatever it’s that makes that more likely to occur, I am for it. I don’t know if it is a brokered convention or not”, Chabot told The Hill.
In this December 10, 2015, photo, Republican presidential candidate, … (It is not a coincidence that the strongest outposts of pro-Trump sentiment within the GOP are organs of white racial paranoia like Matt Drudge, Breitbart, and Rush Limbaugh.) The insurgent radicals have an advantage over the pragmatists in that they are willing to lose elections for the sake of winning the long-term struggle to redefine their party’s identity. If the report was accurate, he said, “I assure you Donald Trump won’t be the only one leaving the party”.
The Republican establishment is playing with fire if they take any action that is perceived to harm the winners of caucus and primary states.
Both Trump and Carson have pledged to support the Republican nominee for president, though Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul, has reserved the right to launch an independent bid if he feels he has been treated unfairly.
“The pledge isn’t meaningless”, Watts said.
The RNC had all candidates sign a pledge at the beginning of the race that they would support the eventual Republican nominee.
Trump said on Fox News that party leaders will need to get used to his presence.
Yesterday Robert Costa and Tom Hamburger reported at the Washington Post that there is a group of establishment Republicans who are preparing for a floor flight via a brokered convention should Donald Trump win the nomination.
Senior GOP officials met at a routine private dinner this week and discussed the possibility of a brokered Republican convention, which hasn’t happened in decades.
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Such a scenario would play out if none of the Republican candidates accumulate the necessary number of delegates in the state-based primaries by the convention.
